Cornelius Engert once joked that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire was excellent preparation for the Foreign Service-and a global career shuttling "from one calamity to another." From Constantinople to Tehran, Beirut to Kabul, Engert became a valued political reporter and one of the State Department's top experts on the Middle East. But Engert was also a lavish entertainer and storyteller whose vague and contradictory manner concealed a mysterious past. Starting out as a Russian called Adolph living in Hungary, Engert masqueraded as the son of an Englishwoman, married into a prominent San Francisco family, and mingled with the elite and influential in foreign capitals worldwide. Here, through dozens of personal letters, memoranda and news accounts, the author takes us on a remarkable journey in time with this fascinating diplomat-her grandfather. Jane Morrison Engert attended Wellesley and Yale, and lives and writes in Oregon.
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